Boing Boing on MSN

Make your computer feel new again with Windows 11 Pro for under $10

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for $9.97 (reg. $199) and add pro-grade security, productivity tools, and Copilot to a ...
The Brighterside of News on MSN

Touchscreens, attention, and the dangers of multitasking while driving

Car dashboards once relied on buttons and knobs you could adjust by feel. Today, large touchscreens dominate vehicle ...
IEEE

Multi-Task Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning With Interaction and Task Representations

Abstract: Multi-task multi-agent reinforcement learning (MT-MARL) is capable of leveraging useful knowledge across multiple related tasks to improve performance on any single task. While recent ...
IEEE

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dependent Task Offloading in Multi-Access Edge Computing

Abstract: Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is an emerging and promising computing paradigm that distributes computational resources closer to users at the network edge, effectively reducing both ...
Psychology Today

The Difficulties of Multi-tasking

Multi-tasking, the mental act of juggling, may not actually be the best way to save time or get things done well. A new body of research has found that multi-tasking makes people less efficient and ...
NPR

In an era of rising prices, computers have gotten cheaper. (And why that may end)

NPR's series Cost of Living: The Price We Pay is examining what's driving price increases and how people are coping after years of stubborn inflation. How are higher prices changing the way you live?